Posted on 12/26/2021 2:41:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The defense team for the “radical extremists” who are being accused of participating in a plot to kidnap Michigan’s unpopular Governor Gretchen Whitmer are calling on the judge to throw out the case against their clients. The 20-page motion, filed Christmas night by all five defense lawyers, asks U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker to dismiss the conspiracy charge. The move would effectively dismantle the government’s case and remaining charges, which are intertwined and based on the conspiracy charge, the lawyers wrote.
“Essentially, the evidence here demonstrates egregious overreaching by the government’s agents, and by the informants those agents handled,” defense lawyers wrote. “When the government was faced with evidence showing that the defendants had no interest in a kidnapping plot, it refused to accept failure and continued to push its plan.”
On October 8, it was announced that six men had been arrested over an alleged plot to kidnap MI Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) and turn her over in Wisconsin for trial on the charge of treason. The unsealed complaint in a federal court charged six men. Five of the men are Michigan residents Adam Fox, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, Brandon Caserta, the sixth man, Barry Croft is a Delaware resident.
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This happens all the time. Fed “informants” push and push to get people to do things. Things they may have only talked about, but would never do.
Randy Weaver comes to mind. The fed agents pushed and pushed to get him to saw the barrel of a shot gun. Then Ruby Ridge happened.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Whitler herself is complicit.
Knowing the little I do about Government Agents, it sounds quite believable that the ‘kidnapping event’ was heavily choreographed by those same agents.
Sometimes, such entrapment IS needed, as in the cases of possible domestic terrorism linked to Al Queda. Other times, it’s not needed.
You may find a small group of people content to sit together, drink beer and complain about a certain politician for the rest of their lives, but in no great hurry to risk losing every material thing they have in their lives because of these complaints. Those seriously committed to the Jihad ARE quite willing to give it all up.
What a tangled web.
Lock up The Fey Wray and the Meritless Garland.
This definitely shows the government IS the enemy. We are in serious danger.
Dry run for the entrapment by the Feds on Jan 6.
Unless it’s someone like disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen, the FBI is going to have a hard time finding anyone to cooperate with them.
With the number of times the FBI has been implicated in inciting various terrorist incidents, it is a good bet if the FBI was disbanded, terrorism would decrease.
I wonder what that evidence is?
From the beginning, it sounded like a group sitting around a campfire drinking beer and shootin' the breeze with no real intent to kidnap her.
Didn’t they recently excuse the known FIB agents and informants from testifying?
This case is ALL about Jan 6.
I have never thought entrapment was a good strategy. Like police forces getting their hottest women officers to pretend to be hookers to entice a guy to solicit prostitution. There is already enough prostitution going on and there is no need to invent fake prostitution to snare some guy who my not have been inclined until the sting was set up.
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